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Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters that the Senate is going to vote in the next few weeks on codifying marriage equality in federal law, a vote that's necessary because Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion in Dobbs, pubed out all over the place about how next it's time to look at overturning marriage, and contraception, and whatever else makes Christian fascists have angry shameful palpitations in their bathing suit regions.
Ten Republicans haven't signed on yet you know, because in upside down batshit Senate world, you have to get 60 percent of the vote to win, yee haw democracy! but Schumer seems to feel like he can get there.
Interestingly, after the House voted on its version of the bill, with 47 House Republicans in support, Ron Johnson from Wisconsin was not on the list of senators immediately opposed. At the time, he said he saw "no reason to oppose" a bill to enshrine marriage equality in the law. And then he said "Ope!" and walked away carrying a giant block of cheese over his shoulder and nobody ever saw him again.
Just kidding, he has been seen again, because the bastard suddenly has reasons why he can't support this marriage equality bill. Very dumb bullshit religious liberty reasons. It's a well-known fact among white fascist Republicans that if anything in American life causes white fundamentalist Christians any mild discomfort, simply by existing, then it is a vicious attack on their religious freedom and must be stopped.
Listen to Johnson bitch and moan about how he only said he saw "no reason to oppose" the bill to get the media OFF HIS BACK. What is he, a senator who has to answer to the public or something?
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Poiuyt
(18,087 posts)Emile
(21,904 posts)and he hates democracy. That it?
Emile
(21,904 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,156 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)dsc
(52,130 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,156 posts)Yavin4
(35,357 posts)And on the Republican side, you have Ron Johnson and Tommy Tuberville, and they're currently running Herschel Walker and Dr. Oz.
MontanaMama
(23,239 posts)sense that he lied. That's all these people are capable of.
Meadowoak
(5,517 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Awww, everyone doesn't believe in your magical ancient book and your sky-daddy, and grant your personal beliefs legal deference, so you have a sad?
That's gotta be just awful.
EnergizedLib
(1,886 posts)Vote for a Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin.
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)He'll want to end same-sex marriage.
Stuart G
(38,359 posts)Ronnie Boy you can join "Ozzie Boy" for being stupid...
And guess what? You will lose your election too...just like "Ozzie Boy."
Isn't that a sarcastic remark about Senator Baldwin?.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,039 posts)Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
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